Handpiece for gear-shifting levers



July 6 1926. l 1,591,433. f P. c. POMMER l HANDPIECE FOR GEAR SIFTNG LIEVE-RS.v

v Filed MaICh i2; 1925 y l A I MAJbRAxIs HORIZONTAL AXIS F/. rINVENTQR @www j 'Qu/BY.

v50 a From the 'foregoing description it will be Y Patented July 6`1926. g f 1 Y' 4159154343 I' l c UNITED STATES oFFICE.

PAUL. c. roivrivnm,` or FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA 'HANDPIECE 'Fon GEAn-sHIF'rING nnvizns.

Application med Marh'ia, i925.` seria; im.'14,96%v f This invention relates to a hand-for1n`jgripA readily understood that my improved hand i or hand-piece for the gear-shifting lever of y'piece conforms, kat the upper portion thereof, automobiles yand the object ofthe invention to the innergface of the hand'and itsdigits Y is,"toI provide a more facile, convenientandl when partly'closed, and because fof this it 5' easily-manipulated hand-piece for the pur# can'be graspedwith ease, facility` and cerfv 55 pose set forth than the spherical handle now., tainty of manipulation, and with slight grip almost universally employed. V l of the operators hand. f j

The construction of thisimproved hand Y i Ihe upperend of nearly all gear-shifting piece and the method of attaching same to a levers isy threaded for the purposeof attach- Y Y l gear-shifting lever are hereinafter described ing the spherical hand-piece heretofore em- 60 with suicient clearness and. accuracy to enployed, and the portion thus threaded diifers Y able those skilled in the arts to vwhich its somewhat, in different makes of automobiles, construction and use respectively-relate, to in diameter and threads per inch,}conse,y make and usethe same, reference being had quently in my improved khand-piece provi- 15A Vto the accompanying drawings which form a sion is made to meet this varyingcondition 65l part hereof, and in which: f so that it maly be readily applied to all makes Fig. l is a left-end view of my improved.A of automobi es. For thispurpose I provide hand-piece or grip.` f said body l` With an internally-threaded Fig. 2 is an yelevation of the rear face ofA socket 8 for-fthe reception of an externally- 0 the hand-piece, and is the face Which is threaded bushing 9,'-that may, in' turn, be in- 70 1'- turnedtoivard the driver of the car. n ternallyfthreaded to lit the thread'upon any Fig..3 isarightend view. c shiftinglever. d i f Fig. 4 is a bottom view. 'A nutlock 10 l'may' beemployed to' secureV Fig. 5 is 'a vertical, transverse section, on said hand-piece firmly in position. line V of Fig.`2. Y v v *I claimjth'e following:

The construction illustrated in said draw- 1. A hand-piece for the gear-shifting lever ings is substantially as'follows: y ofan automobile comprising an oblong body The hand-piece consists of. an oblong body of, ovoid cross-sectional form having fingerv 1 that is adapted to be attached to thev gearsaddlesor depressions in the smaller curved s shiftingv lever 2 of an automobile. The lon; ,surfacev of said`ovoid form, said body being 80 ger artis of said body 1 is arrangedhorizonl `adapted tobe attached to ythe, gear-shifting tally and'in parallel relation to the dashlever of an automobile with saidk ngerboard ofthe car and tothe drivers seat.l The* Saddles disposed upwardly. y v j s y transverse section of said bodyis substan 2. A hand-v iecefor the gear-shifting lever tially ovoid or egg-shaped 'with its longer jof an automoile comprising an oblong body curvevpositioned lowermost and the longer or oifovoidY cross-sectional form adapted to be major axis of said ovoid form disposed at an attached to 'said gear-shifting lever Withl the angleoi:` 45 degrees tothe horizontal iv and longitudinal-axis of said oblong body disaway from the driver of "the automobile, lposed in substantially parallel relation to the as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and-3. The updrivers seat and the major axis of said ovoid 90 i per face of said body, which is lthe smaller form disposed at an angle of substantially 45 curve of said ovoid form is provided'with ydegrees, to the horizontal and lits smaller a plurality of nger depressionsftermed-sadf curve positioned uppermost, said' curve being dles, asB, 4 and 5 in which the first, second provided with linger depressions -for the Y. 'and third fingers of the right hand'rest when '.irst, second and third fingers,"also a depres- 95 the hand-piece is grasped; in the right-hand sion in one end of said body forthel little end of said body isa nger depression 6 for linger, and another'. depressionv in thegoppo- Y the little linger and in the left-hand end isV site end of l,said body for the thumb.

formed a depression 7 'for the thumb. In testimony whereof I aliix mysignature.

- yPAUL 

